Skiers ready for slopestyle Crystal Globe showdown at Tignes season finale
Mar 10, 2025·Freeski Park & Pipe
The world’s best freeskiers are saving the best until last in the battle for the slopestyle Crystal Globe at the final slopestyle contest of the 2024/25 FIS Freeski World Cup season in Tignes this week.
Beginning on Tuesday 11 March, Tignes (FRA) will welcome 85 skiers for the fifth and final slopestyle competition of the 2024/25 FIS season.
Slopestyle competition in Tignes will begin with men’s qualifications at 10:45 Central European Time (CET) on Tuesday, followed by women’s qualifications from 14:15 CET on Wednesday 12 March.
U.S. skier Colby Stevenson currently leads the men’s field of 60 despite not qualifying for the final at the previous slopestyle World Cup event in Stoneham (CAN) in February.
Stevenson sits atop the men’s slopestyle World Cup standings on 218 points thanks to his season-opening win in Stubai (AUT) in November, followed by ninth place at Laax (SUI) in January, then runner-up honours from Aspen (USA) earlier in February.
It is, however, an extremely tight battle atop the men’s slope rankings, with seven skiers capable of nabbing top spot in Tignes.
Closest behind the 27-year-old Stevenson in the slopestyle standings is four-time slopestyle Crystal Globe winner Andri Ragettli of Switzerland, who sits on 206 points. Ragettli finished seventh in the 16-man final in Stoneham but the points he earned there still helped him move from fourth to second in the standings.
With Ragettli now within striking distance of the men’s slopestyle Crystal Globe, it will be interesting to see if the 26-year-old can deliver a top-three finish. Ragettli’s slopestyle performances this season have varied from topping qualifications at Stubai and Laax, to second place at Stubai and sixth at Laax – to narrowly missing the podium with fourth place at Aspen.
Despite a challenging 2024/25 season, Ragettli continues to lead the all-time slopestyle World Cup podium rankings with 23 in total: 11 victories, seven in second place, five in third place.
U.S. skiers Mac Forehand and Alex Hall are also within striking distance of the Globe in Tignes, with Forehand on 204 points compared to Hall’s 194 points. Reigning slopestyle World Champion Birk Ruud (NOR) sits between them on 200 points. Ruud’s two slopestyle podium finishes from six World Cup starts this season include third at Aspen in February, and outright victory in Laax in January.
Forehand was runner-up behind Ruud in Laax while Hall claimed third place, before Hall went on to win in Aspen. At Stoneham, Forehand finished fifth while Hall was 12th.
Meanwhile, New Zealand’s Luca Harrington will be keen to add another slopestyle podium to his World Cup season at Tignes after he was runner-up at Stoneham behind Austrian skier Matej Svancer. In January Harrington won slopestyle gold at his X Games debut.
Twenty-one-year-old Harrington has also collected three big air World Cup podium finishes this season, including back-to-back wins from Klagenfurt and Kreischberg in January.
Svancer shared the Klagenfurt and Kreischberg big air podiums with Harrington in third and second place respectively. His maiden slopestyle win ahead of Harrington at Stoneham proved that, like the New Zealander, Svancer is a freeski double threat. The win also put Svancer atop of the overall men’s Park & Pipe standings on 472 points, with Harrington sitting in second on 455 points.
In women’s slopestyle, France’s Tess Ledeux leads the field of 25 in Tignes with standings leader Megan Oldham (CAN) not competing. Ledeux returns to World Cup competition in Tignes after missing the Stoneham and Laax events. After just two slopestyle World Cup events this season, the 23-year-old sits on 200 points from her two victories at Stubai and Aspen.
In January Ledeux won her 12th X Games medal after winning the women’s slopestyle event at the 2025 edition in Aspen.
Trailing Ledeux in the FIS slopestyle standings on 182 points is Italian teenager Flora Tabanelli, who comes to Tignes fresh off her maiden slopestyle win in Stoneham. The 17-year-old leads the overall women’s Park & Pipe standings on 500 points and has already ensured one Crystal Globe in big air after taking second place at the previous big air World Cup stop in Aspen in February.
Both Tabanelli and Ledeux will also contest big air in Tignes starting on Tuesday 11 March, but Ledeux has a slopestyle and home advantage over Tabanelli given the French skier won the Tignes event two years in a row and will be keen to make it a hat-trick in 2025.
Other contenders in the women’s field are U.S. skier Rell Harwood and Switzerland’s Sarah Hoefflin. Harwood, 23, claimed her second podium of her World Cup career in Stoneham with third place, following on from her maiden third place finish in Aspen in February. Before 2025, Harwood’s best slopestyle World Cup result was fifth in 2021 at Silvaplana (SUI).
Hoefflin, on the other hand, has not finished in the top five at the World Cup since she claimed third place at the slopestyle season-opener in Stubai. In January the Swiss skier finished at the bottom of the eight-woman final in Laax. While the 34-year-old did not start at the next slopestyle World Cup in Aspen, she did claim bronze on the same course at the X Games in January.
Hoefflin also comes to Tignes having narrowly missed out on the podium here in 2024 and 2023 with fourth place.
The top eight women and top 10 men from qualifications will progress to the finals on Friday 14 March beginning at 10:00 CET.
SLOPESTYLE FACTS & FIGURES
Andri Ragettli (SUI) has amassed 23 slopestyle World Cup podiums, including 11 wins. His four slopestyle Crystal Globes are double his next closest competitors on the all-time rankings.
Tess Ledeux (FRA) leads the all-time slopestyle World Cup victories tally with 13. Though Ledeux has a total of 17 top-three finishes in slopestyle, she has only won the slopestyle Crystal Globe once in her career.
QUICK LINKS
Tignes Slopestyle World Cup data page (start lists, live scoring, results)
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